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• PPIP Fraud Vulnerabilities: Aspects of PPIP make it inherently vulnerable tofraud, waste, and abuse, including signifi cant issues relating to confl icts of interestfacing fund managers, collusion between participants, and vulnerabilities tomoney laundering. SIGTARP has made a series of recommendations to addressthese concerns, including, among others, that Treasury should (i) impose strictconfl ict-of-interest rules upon Public-Private Investment Fund (“PPIF”) fundmanagers, (ii) mandate transparency with respect to the participation and managementof PPIFs, including disclosure of the benefi cial owners of the privateequity stakes in the PPIFs and of all transactions undertaken in them, and (iii)that all PPIF fund managers have stringent investor-screening procedures, includingcomprehensive “Know Your Customer” requirements at least as rigorousas that of a commercial bank or retail brokerage operation.• Interaction Between PPIP and TALF: In announcing the details of PPIP,Treasury has indicated that PPIFs under the Legacy Securities Program could,in turn, use the leveraged PPIF funds (two-thirds of which will likely be taxpayermoney) to purchase legacy MBS through TALF, greatly increasing taxpayerexposure to losses with no corresponding increase of potential profi ts. Such anexpansion could cause great harm to one of the fundamental taxpayer protectionsin the original design of TALF by signifi cantly diluting the private party’spersonal stake, the “skin in the game,” and therefore reduce their incentive toconduct appropriate due diligence. Treasury should not allow Legacy SecuritiesPPIFs to invest in TALF unless signifi cant mitigating measures are includedto address the dilution of this incentive, which could include prohibiting theuse of leverage for PPIFs investing through TALF or proportionately increasing